Nearest Communities to Ashford Junction,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ashford Junction, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ashford Junction:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Ashford Junction.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Ashford Junction is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Inyo County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Inyo County: Fresno, Kern, Mono, San Bernardino, Tulare, Clark (NV), Esmeralda (NV) & Nye (NV).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 16 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ashford Junction. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Inyo County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Ashford Junction (which is Inyo County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Ashford Junction
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Inyo County (where Ashford Junction resides)
- County Website: www.inyocounty.us/
- County Seat for Inyo: Independence
- Note: The western boundary of the county is defined by the Sierra Nevada Mountains
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of California
- Inyo County
- From Family Search:
- State of California
- Inyo County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of California
- Inyo County
- Nearest Communities to Ashford Junction ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ashford Junction.
- Ashford Mill ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashford Mill
- Ashford Mill is located in Inyo County
- Greenwater ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenwater have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwater
- Greenwater is located in Inyo County
- Shoshone
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoshone
- Shoshone is located in Inyo County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shoshone <5>
- Badwater ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Eagle Borax Works ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Borax Works
- Eagle Borax Works is located in Inyo County
- Tecopa Hot Springs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tecopa Hot Springs
- Tecopa Hot Springs is located in Inyo County
- Tecopa
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tecopa
- Tecopa is located in Inyo County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tecopa <5>
- Lila C ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north) - Evelyn ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast) - Panamint City ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panamint City
- Panamint City is located in Inyo County
- Ryan ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan
- Ryan is located in Inyo County
- Death Valley Junction
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Death Valley Junction
- Death Valley Junction is located in Inyo County
- Former names for Death Valley Junction:
- Amargosa
- Death Valley
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Death Valley Junction <5>
- San Bernardino County
- County Website: www.sbcounty.gov/
- County Seat for San Bernardino: San Bernardino
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of California
- San Bernardino County
- From Family Search:
- State of California
- San Bernardino County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of California
- San Bernardino County
- Nearest Communities to Ashford Junction ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ashford Junction.
- Ibex Springs ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ibex Springs
- Ibex Springs is located in San Bernardino County
- Acme ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - Dumont Crossing
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dumont Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dumont Crossing
- Dumont Crossing is located in San Bernardino County
- Sperry ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Ashford Junction) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ashford Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.9097, Longitude: -116.6734 In this case, the coordinates for Ashford Junction have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Ashford Junction, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |